A quick-thinking diver has recalled how he played dead after a Great White Shark bit him and carried him 16 feet through the ocean.
Frank Logan was diving for sea snails at Bodega Rock in California's Sonoma County when disaster struck.
He was viciously attacked by the superpredator leaving him with 18 individual tooth punctures across a 20-inch crescent-shaped wound across his torso, Daily Star reports.
The diver who was wearing a black wetsuit and snorkel was with pals Floyd Blanchard and Bill Posten for 25 minutes at a reef when a shark sank its teeth into his body.
He said: "I felt something come down on my legs like a giant vice and then a crushing pain in my back and chest."
The shark then began thrashing him around in his jaws when quick-thinking Frank decided to play dead and let his body go limp.
Frank, who was 25 at the time, was then carried 16 feet through the water before the shark released Frank and swam away.
Frank's mates helped get him to shore before driving him to the hospital where surgeons used more than 200 sutures to repair his wounds.
The dimensions of Frank's injuries suggested that the shark was about 13 feet long when he struck in 1968.
Emperors of the Deep author William McKeever said Frank's experience is evidence of sharks having no interest in dining on human flesh as a tasty meal.
He wrote: "If hunger were the shark's primary motivation for the attack, Logan would have made an easy meal.
"The ISAF database shows that sharks rarely feed on their victims.
Mr McKeever added in his book released in 2020, that it is the sound of movement not the smell of blood that draws sharks to humans at sea.
The author continued: "One commonly held view is that a single drop of human blood will precipitate an attack. While it is true that sharks can detect small quantities of substances in the water, a few drops of blood will quickly dissipate in the ocean.
"In cases where a shark victim was bleeding in the water and more than one shark was in the vicinity, the blood did not draw the other sharks.
"Because sharks are far more likely to home in on low-frequency sounds, such as the thrashing of a wounded fish, a human kicking wildly or paddling vigorously on a surfboard is far more likely to draw the attention of a shark than a few drops of blood are."
Mr McKeever added: "Even victims who were bleeding profusely, like Frank Logan, were not subsequently attacked after the initial bite: only 4% of victims reported being attacked in such a frenzied fashion."
